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Locked-out Gate Gourmet workers yesterday at Heathrow – determined to reject any deal which includes compulsory redundancies

Gate Gourmet Deal ‘Worthless’

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‘The deal done between the TGWU and Gate Gourmet is worthless, I’m going to apply to an Employment Tribunal for unfair dismissal,’ Mr A...

‘Tories Out’ march this Sat ‘All members must turn out’ urge trade unions

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‘WE ARE asking members to support the major anti-cuts demonstration in central London on 1st July,’ civil servants union PCS said yesterday, referring to...
The march of more than 3,000 people organised by the North East London Council of Action last November against the closure of Chase Farm Hospital in Enfield. The Council of Action has called for another mass march on July 26

TIME TO DEFEND NHS! – message for BMA ARM

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DOCTORS will be challenging the government’s privatisation of the NHS at the British Medical Association’s Annual Representative Meeting in Edinburgh, which starts today. On this...

TIME TO DEFEND NHS! say UNISON and the GMB

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‘We need an end to the privatisation of the NHS,’ a UNISON spokeswoman told News Line yesterday. She was responding to government backing for the...

Greece 24hr national strike

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GREEK public sector workers launched a 24-hour national strike yesterday against the SYRIZA (Coalition of the Radical Left)- ANEL coalition government’s new austerity accord...
Celebrations outside the ERT station after the Greek High Court ordered the ending of the closure

‘A Victory at ERT’ – workers determined to bring down Samaras

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THE leaders of the eleven TV, Radio and newspaper media trade unions issued a ‘Victory at ERT’ (Greek State TV and Radio network) statement...

LABOUR RENEGADE AUSTIN REFUSES TO DENY HE’LL VOTE TORY

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IAN AUSTIN, MP for Dudley North in the West Midlands, who quit the Labour Party yesterday, said that he will not call a by-election,...
Over 1,000 people marched through Norwich last month against the Arts Council cuts

MASSACRE OF THE ARTS! – Arts Council withdraws grants from 184 organisations

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A total of 184 arts organisations have had 100 per cent of their funding withdrawn, Arts Council England announced yesterday. While it said that 17...
BA cabin crew strikers are fighting for the whole trade union movement

Bring The Whole Of BA Out!

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‘BRITISH Airways cabin crew are fighting for the whole trade union movement,’ striking Unite member ‘George’ told News Line yesterday. Using a pseudonym to avoid...
Junior doctors out in force on a demonstration three days before their last strike on February 10th – this time they are out for 48 hours

Junior doctors 48hr strike today

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‘OTHER trade unions should take action to support us and defend the NHS and I really hope we are all going to come together...

Croydon NHS demands Covid sick pay!

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WORKERS at Croydon Hospital are staging a protest on January 31st to demand Covid sick pay. Porters and cleaners at the south London hospital are...
The banner of the trades union at the state arms and munitions factory at Tanagra in central Greece. It reads ‘Defence industries must remain 100% state owned – no to privatisation’

‘We are putting up gallows for you’ – Greek workers tell MPs

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THREE thousand workers staged a militant march through Athens on Thursday, despite temperatures of 40 degrees, demanding the overthrow of the government and an...
Greek museum workers’ and secondary school teachers’ banners on the coordinated trade union march last Thursday

Greek workers and youth on the way to an unprising!

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ATHENS – Greek workers and youth are on the road to an uprising! Mass rallies and demonstrations are taking place throughout Greece as part of...
Students demonstrating in London against £9,000 tuition fees

UNIVERSITIES GOING BUST! – UCU condemns barbaric plans

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More universities risk going bust under the government’s proposals to axe teaching budgets and replace the money with higher student fees, according to a...

2.7% Fare Hike – Amidst Rail Chaos

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COMMUTERS were up in arms yesterday as above inflation 2.7% increases in rail fares set in, while services across the country have been in...

WE ARE GOING TO WIN! – say striking Grangemouth workers

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The 1,200 striking workers at the Grangemouth oil refinery yesterday made it clear they are determined to defend their pensions. Unite members walked out of...
Riot police attack with tear gas spray gun a protesting student outside the central Athens office of the Finance Ministry’s Secretary on Thursday. Photo courtesy left.gr

Greek Youth Unemployment Now Over 61.7%

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GREEK Statistics Authority (ELSTAT) announced catastrophic unemployment and recession figures in its monthly report on Thursday. ELSTAT stated that youth unemployment (15-24 years old) reached...
Millions of trade unionists are fighting to defend their jobs, wages and pensions and are convinced that crisis-ridden capitalism must go

Banks New Quantitative Easing Fears

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PRESSURE is mounting on the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) to consider another round of emergency Quantitative Easing (QE – printing money)...

SCRAP ‘RISKY’ NHS BILL – says Unison

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In a report published today, the House of Commons Committee of Public Accounts has warned that the reorganisation of the NHS in England could...
Junior doctors marched in their thousands a week ago throuhh London and Glasgow, in opposition to the MTAS scheme, defending their jobs and the NHS

JUNIOR DOCTORS QUIT TALKS – scrap the Medical Training Application Service (MTAS)!

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Junior doctors have withdrawn from the government established review body set up to try to resolve the failures of the flawed and...
Pickets and supporters outside the Enfield Visteon plant – they are determined to win this struggle for jobs

BELFAST CONVENOR EXCLUDED – from talks with Visteon managers

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THE Visteon Belfast factory’s Unite convenor, John Maguire, said yesterday that he was being excluded from the meeting with the Visteon management. He...
Hundreds of thousands took part in an anti-austerity march on June 20th – they will not take a rise in interest rates lying down

‘RATE RISE FEAR’ – Bank of England urges caution

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‘IT WOULD be foolish to pre-announce’ a date for an interest rate increase, the Bank of England’s deputy governor for monetary policy Ben Broadbent...
Residents have been campaigning very determinedly to stop the Haringey Development Vehicle privatisation scheme

‘We need council housing –not more privatisation!’

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HARINGEY workers and residents yesterday said they are glad to see the back of council leader Claire Kober and want her housing ‘regeneration’ scheme...
WRP candidate JONTY LEFF (right) talking to students at Hackney Community College who were all determined to fight against the cuts to their college and get rid of all university fees

Hackney students support WRP’s Leff

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STUDENTS at Hackney Community College in Shoreditch, east London joined the campaign yesterday to elect Workers Revolutionary Party candidate for Hackney South and Shoreditch...

‘NEGOTIATION NOT IMPOSITION!’ – Unite calls BA cabin crew strike ballot

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The Unite trade union yesterday announced it is to ballot 14,000 British Airways cabin crew for strike action after weeks of talks over BA’s...

Rubio-Netanyahu joint press conference!

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US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held a joint press conference in Israel yesterday, in which they threatened...

AMAZON MUST BE NATIONALISED! – WRP’s Leff tells HQ rally

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‘AMAZON and all companies and industries must be nationalised and put under public ownership,’ Jonty Leff, Workers Revolutionary Party candidate for Hackney South and...

Sharma refuses to sign petition to reopen Ealing paediatrics and maternity

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EALING Southall Labour MP Varindra Sharma refused to sign the West London Council of Action petition to reopen maternity and paediatrics at Ealing Hospital...

BILLIONS WIPED OFF SHARES – after Japan stock market collapse

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Billions of dollars, pounds and euros were wiped off worldwide share prices yesterday as investors took fright at the abrupt collapse and closure of...

Reopening Rafah ‘a significant achievement’ – let all medical evacuees out now!

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HAMAS has hailed yesterday’s reopening of the Rafah crossing in southern Gaza as a significant achievement for the Palestinian resistance. However, the Gaza Ministry of...
Over 100,000 workers and youth demanded ‘Hands off the Lebanon’ on a march in London last Saturday

WE WILL KILL ANYBODY THAT MOVES – Israelis warn residents of Tyre

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Hezbollah fighters killed three Israeli soldiers in fighting along the southern Lebanon border yesterday. This was after a night of air attacks by Israeli jets...
UCU members, City & Islington College, on the picket line during the national strike on April 24th

London Lecturers’ Pay Strike!

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COLLEGE lecturers in London, members of the University and College Union (UCU), will take strike action on Monday (9 June). And further action across England...

Netanyahu warrant

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A JUDGE in Spain has issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and seven other former and current Israeli officials over...
NEWS LINE ANNIVERSARY RALLY: SUNDAY 2nd DECEMBER

NEWS LINE ANNIVERSARY RALLY: SUNDAY 2nd DECEMBER

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The News Line Anniversary Rally takes place on Sunday December 2nd from 2-6pm at Skeel Lecture Theatre, Queen Mary university, Mile End, London E1 For...

Lecturers Fight Long Hours And Privatisation

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The University and College Union (UCU) announced yesterday that its members at the University of West England (UWE), Bristol, will be balloted for strike...

BA Sellout!

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THE UNION Unite claimed yesterday that the deal offered to British Airways’ pilots would be acceptable to tens of thousands of its cabin crew...

HUNT’S CLASS WAR BUDGET SCRAPS THE HOUSEHOLD SUPPORT FUND SEPT 30th

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TORY Chancellor Hunt delivered his class war Budget in the House of Commons yesterday, announcing that the Household Support Fund will be scrapped on...
Mounted police cavalry charge striking miners at the Orgeave coke depot – Rudd announced no inquiry into police violence

Fury At No Inquiry Into Orgreave

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‘I HAVE concluded that there is no case for either a statutory inquiry or an independent review,’ into the battle of Orgreave, home secretary...

No to two-tier Maternity! – demand Charter Schools strikers

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‘NO TO TWO-TIER Maternity!’ declare striking teachers at the Charter Schools Multi-Academy Trust in Southwark, south-east London, who begin a further three-day strike this...

FINANCIAL CRASH! – bankers warning over ‘risky loans’

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Risky loans are leading to a financial crash, leading bankers warned yesterday. William Rhodes, senior vice chairman of Citigroup warned: ‘Lenders all too often, are...

350 London Transit workers on two days strike over pay

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OVER 350 workers employed by London Transit bus company are taking strike action today and Monday after rejecting the company’s latest pay offer. ‘We are...
March around Sussex University Campus during the occupation on 25th March 2013 – they have now resumed their occupation

Birmingham Occupation Spreads To Sussex

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THE occupation by University of Birmingham students of the Aston Webb building is continuing in defiance of the High Court Injunction secured by the...
Demonstrators outside the Israeli embassy were confident that the Palestinan masses would stand fast and force the arrogant Israeli aggressors back

‘Victory for defiance in face of death!’

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GAZA prime minister Ismail Haniya has hailed the Egyptian-brokered truce agreement between the Palestinian resistance and Israel as a triumph for the Palestinian people. He...

NHS HAS ‘FRIGHTENING’ AND ‘UNFORGIVABLE’ STAFF CRISIS says the BMA doctors’ trade union

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ENGLAND has an ‘unforgivable’ and ‘frightening’ NHS workforce crisis that severely threatens patient safety, says the BMA doctors’ union in research published today. The BMA...

‘Brexit deal fails Labour’s six tests’ says Corbyn

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TORY PM May announced yesterday that a political declaration has been ‘agreed in principle’ between the UK and the EU outlining how trade, security...